Lot: 166
Thomas Warton The Hamlet, an ode written in Wichwood Forest, Illustrated with fourteen etchings by Birket Foster, Sampson Low, 1859, octavo, original gilt cloth VG, gutta percha binding weak with few loose plates, a few minor tone spots, plates unaffected.
Lot: 167
Thomas Brown (1663-1704) Collection of Miscellany Poems, Letters, &c., to which is added A Character of a Latitudinarian, John Sparks, 1699, First Edition; small octavo, full leather, rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the boards overlaid with the original leather covering; light browning affects the text to varying degrees. Worming at foot of last few leaves and a damaged corner to pp.341/2 without text loss. Collated as complete. Pagination errors with pp.113-128 not used and p.349 shown as “493”. Wing 5052. VG
Lot: 168
Shakespeare, Marston, Ben Jonson & others The Phoenix & Turtle, Shakespeare Head Press & Basil Blackwell, 1937, original wraps & pictorial dustjacket, VG; b/w frontisp; unopened. 31pp. (One of 50 issued)
Lot: 169
Brown Linnet Why Why and Tom Cat, Illustrated by Gordon Browne; Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co, 1906, 1st Edn, tall octavo, original pictorial cloth, VG; prize bookplate of 1907; many illustrations including frontispiece and 8 full-page plates; 171pp + 24pp illustrated catalogue
Lot: 170
Vernon Scannell Ring of Truth, 1983, signed First Edition in fine d/jkt, and other signed Firsts by Scannell, most in VG/fine d/jkts, comprising The Loving Game 1975, The Winter Man 1973, The Face of the Enemy 1961 (worn d/jkt), and Views and Distances 2000, s/bk; also Of Love & War 2002 unsigned 1st Edition. (6)
Lot: 171
The Poetical Works of John Critchley Prince, Abel Heywood, Manchester, 1880, quarto, 2 Vols, original gilt cloth, VG; large paper edition, No.45 of 100 issued; front inner hinge to Vol. 1 frayed o/w fine. (2)
Lot: 172
Horace G. Hutchinson A Saga of the “Sunbeam”, Longmans, 1911, original gilt cloth, spine a little faded, endpapers browned, some minor tone spots elsewhere but generally fine internally with frontispiece and 12 photographic plates. Blindstamp of the Royal Forth Yacht Club at foot of title page. This work chronicles a voyage from the Moray Firth to Iceland, thence to Newfoundland and Canada in the ocean-going yacht Sunbeam; xviii,211pp.
Lot: 173
Wilkie Collins Rambles Beyond Railways; or Notes in Cornwall taken a-foot. Richard Bentley, 1851, First Edition, fine later half-calf, gilt, over marbled boards by G. Winstanley of Manchester; marble edged; foxing to free endpapers and occasionally the margins of a few of the 12 tinted lithograph plates which are otherwise fine; clean text. (8),304pp.
Lot: 175
James Breeks Primitive Tribes & Monuments of the Nilagiris, Cultural Publishing House, 1983, in chipped d/jkt; Samuel Baker The Albert N’Yanza, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1962, 2 vols, in slipcase; The Zambesi Journal and Letters of Dr.John Kirk, edited Foskett, 1965, 2 vols; and three other travel titles. All in dustjackets. (8)
Lot: 176
Mrs. Ernest Hart Picturesque Burma, Past and Present J.M.Dent, 1897, quarto, recased incorporating the original decorated cloth, new endpapers; t.e.g., uncut elsewhere; occasional light spotting; fine photo-plates, maps and gravures.
Lot: 177
Charles Gutzlaff Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China in 1831, 1832 & 1833, Frederick Westley, 1834, contemp.gilt cloth worn at extremities; frontispiece damp-stained; title page with manuscript inscription of the Sion Meeting House Library, Alnwick; folding map intact but near detached; clean text. 347pp
Lot: 178
Priscilla Wakefield The Traveller in Asia; or, a Visit to the most Celebrated Parts of the East Indies and China. Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1817, 12mo, contemp leather badly stained with front board partly detached, gilt title intact; folding hand-coloured Map intact, reinforced with archival tape; good clean text. Index and advert leaf. Ownership signature to free endpaper dated 1817; iv,237,[10].
Lot: 179
James Richardson Travels in Morocco, Charles Skeet, London, 1860, 2 Volumes, original blind-tooled & gilt cloth, worn, the backstrips shabby with pieces missing at head & foot, rear board of Vol. 2 cracked and repaired; good internally, each volume with frontispiece and engraved title; minor spotting to prelims; woodcuts in text; p.241/2 of Vol. 1 with tear in margin; advertisements at rear of Vol. 2; (vol.1) xxvi, 302pp.; (vol.2) vi, 320, [4]pp.
Lot: 180
Herbert Tichy Cho Oyu: By Favour of the Gods, Methuen, 1957, First English Edition, fine, in a VG near complete d/jkt (slightly chipped at foot of spine), complete with 26 plates (4 coloured). 196pp
Lot: 181
Lt.Col. P. Hawker Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that Relates to Guns and Shooting, Longman, Rees, Orme, 1833, 7th Edn, fine later three-quarter morocco by Bayntum-Riviere of Bath with raised bands & gilt decoration to the compartments; t.e.g.; fine internally with all engraved plates and woodcuts.
Lot: 182
Paul Magriel The Memoirs of the Life of Daniel Mendoza, Batsford, 1951, 1st Edn, fine in a faded d/jkt, chipped at corners; and James Fair Give Him to the Angels: The Story of Harry Greb, N.York, 1946, in a very worn d/jkt, with browning to endpapers, title page and text margins. (2)
Lot: 183
George Basterfield Mountain Lure, Titus Wilson, 1947, 1st Edn, original printed cloth, VG, and Songs of a Cragsman, George Basterfield, 1935, printed boards darkened, signed & inscribed by Basterfield.
Lot: 184
Nimrod [Charles Apperley] The Life of a Sportsman, Kegan Paul, 1905, quarto, green gilt cloth, slightly worn, fine internally with 36 hand-coloured plates each with a titled tissue-guard.
Lot: 185
J. Burt The Bristol Chess Club; its History, Chief Players, and 23 Years’ Record of Principal Events, James Fawn, 1883, original blind-tooled cloth, gilt; fox marks to end-papers and some minor tone marks affecting a few other pages but generally fine internally, without inscriptions. 202pp
Lot: 186
G.A. MacDonnell Chess Life-Pictures, containing Biographical Sketches, Caissana, and Character Sketches, Kelly & Co, 1883, original gilt cloth, spine darkened; original owner’s signature; tissue-guarded frontispiece; staples rusted and first two leaves of preface loose o/w fine internally; viii, 243pp. Scarce